Hint
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Answer
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King of Wessex, burned cakes
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Alfred the Great
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Second King of the Anglo Saxons, Royal court at Winchester
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Edward the Elder
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First recognised King of England
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Athelstan
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The Magnificent, revival of monasteries, stabbed to death
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Edmund I
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Battled Eric "Bloodaxe"
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Eadred
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Theological conflicts with St Dunstan
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Eadwig
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The Peaceful, St Dunstan as advisor
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Edgar
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Murdered at Corfe Castle, modern-day cult following in the Catholic Church
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Edward the Martyr
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Poorly advised, famously "unprepared" for Kinghood
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Ethelred the Unready
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First Danish King of England
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Sweyn Forkbeard
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Resisted Danish Invasion, King for six months
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Edmund II (Ironside)
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Tried to stop the tide, Danegeld
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Canute
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Skilled hunter, briefly shared rule with his half-brother, died aged 24
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Harold I
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King for two years, last Danish King of England
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Harthacanute
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Canonised by Pope Alexander III, famously pious, last King of Wessex
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Edward the Confessor
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Killed at the Battle of Hastings, last King of the Anglo-Saxons
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Harold II
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Proclaimed King but never crowned, exiled after Norman Invasion
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Edgar II
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The Conqueror, Battle of Hastings victor, Domesday Book
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William I
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Red-faced King, killed while hunting in the New Forest
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William II (Rufus)
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Beauclerc, created Royal Exchequer, dispute with St Anselm
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Henry I
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The Anarchy, disputed throne with his female cousin
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Stephen
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Hint
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Answer
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The Anarchy, disputed Queen, styled as Empress
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Matilda
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First Angevin King, murder of Thomas Becket
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Henry II
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Co-ruler with his father (above), junior King
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Henry the Young King
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Crusader, spent only six months in England as King, Melek-Ric
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Richard I
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Lackland, Magna Carta, youngest son of Eleanor of Aquitaine
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John
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Became King aged 9, Simon de Montfort, fourth longest reigning monarch
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Henry III
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Longshanks, "Hammer of the Scots", expelled Jews from England
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Edward I
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Possible gay relationship with Piers Gaveston, rumoured death by red hot poker
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Edward II
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Order of the Garter, start of the Hundred Year's War, Battle of Crecy, Battle of Poitiers
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Edward III
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King aged 4, regency of John of Gaunt, Peasant's Revolt, deposed
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Richard II
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Bolingbroke, Owen Glyndwr, Battle of Shrewsbury, buried in Canterbury Cathedral
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Henry IV
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Battle of Agincourt, featured in three Shakespeare plays
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Henry V
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Weak willed, occasionally insane, deposed and returned as King
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Henry VI
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Wars of the Roses, Battle of Tewkesbury, married Elizabeth Woodville
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Edward IV
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Murdered in the Tower of London aged around 13, King for 86 days
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Edward V
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Supposed murderer of the above, hunchbacked, died during Battle of Bosworth
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Richard III
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First Tudor King
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Henry VII
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Six wives, Dissolution of the Monasteries, had two wives beheaded
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Henry VIII
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Boy King, 'The Prince and the Pauper', named his young cousin as successor
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Edward VI
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Disputed claimant to the throne, Queen for nine days, executed aged 16
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Lady Jane Grey
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Nicknamed "Bloody", burned Protestant martyrs, married Philip II of Spain
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Mary I
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Hint
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Answer
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Golden Age Queen, Virgin Queen, Spanish Armada, daughter of Anne Boleyn
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Elizabeth I
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First Stuart King, wisest fool in Christendom, Gunpowder Plot
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James I
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Executed in 1649, English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell
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Charles I
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Restored monarchy in 1660, famously "Merry", Great Fire of London, Titus Oates
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Charles II
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Last Catholic monarch, Battle of the Boyne, deposed
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James II
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Glorious Revolution, reigned jointly with her husband
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Mary II
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Glorious Revolution, husband of the above, member of the House of Orange
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William III
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Reigned as the first monarch of Great Britain and Ireland, Act of Union
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Anne
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First Hanoverian King
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George I
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Last British monarch born outside Great Britain, Bonnie Prince Charlie
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George II
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Famously suffered from a mental illness, American War of Independence, Napoleonic Wars
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George III
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Commissioned Nash to build Brighton Pavilion, disliked by his subjects, wasteful spending
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George IV
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The Sailor King, Reform Riots
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William IV
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Second-longest reigning Monarch, Industrial Revolution, 19th century era named after her
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Victoria
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Longest serving Prince of Wales, Uncle of Europe, "Peacemaker"
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Edward VII
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First World War, cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Nicholas, first Labour government
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George V
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Abdicated to marry an American divorcee after 11 months as King
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Edward VIII
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Second World War, last Emperor of India, first head of the Commonwealth
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George VI
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Our longest reigning Monarch, she reigned for 70 years
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Elizabeth II
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The present Monarch, the longest-serving Prince of Wales in history
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Charles III
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I like the idea of clues rather than just lists of dates (although the dates would be useful also, after the answer is entered, for those of us using this as a learning tool).
Can I ask that it be made a 'yellow box' quiz? I wanted to start by putting the ones I knew, eg Henry VIII and William IV - but it is not possible to do this without getting 10 others for 'free'.
I was also going to mention that 'waves' clue, but I see that others have been there before me. How about a more subtle clue - 'demonstrated to his sycophantic advisers the he had no God-like powers' - or something like that?
Thank you again.